Southern Heritage and the Constitution under fire

The Obama Revolution will complete the globalist agenda of uprooting our cultural and political traditions and imposing an all-powerful central government on what's left of the American people. And it will be done in the name of the Founding Fathers. That's Obama's genius, the ability to implement a radical program behind a veneer of conservatism.

This isn't idle speculation or fear-mongering, it's simply a matter of believing Obama's own words. Here, he reveals both his socialistic goals and his contempt for the Constitution's restrictions on government power:

But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.

He's right, of course -- the limited government established by the Founders could never impose socialism. To Obama, and many others, that's a problem.

How do you disconnect a people from their political traditions? By redefining their sense of who they are; in other words, by stripping them of their identity. Take their heritage from them, and they'll be putty in your hands.

The most committed socialists in government understand this. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr, for example, has made clear his goal of creating "a more perfect union" by empowering the government to provide for health care, tuition, and housing -- in other words, creating a socialist system. What prevents him from achieving that goal? Two things: cultural distrust of activist government, which Jackson recognizes as an integral part of the present-day Southern Cause, and the constraints of the Constitution, as he explicitly states here in this speech to National Park Service employees:

Dr. James McPherson said that nearly all the first ten amendments to the Constitution apply the phrase "shall not" to the federal government. In fact, eleven of the first twelve amendments place limitations on the power of the national government. However, beginning with the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, six of the next seven amendments radically expanded the power of the federal government at the expense of the states. Every one of them grants significant new powers to the government with the phrase "Congress shall have the power to enforce this article." We need to revive this tradition of positive amendments, which is what I propose to do.

Congressman Jackson will get his chance to re-introduce his socialist program under the Obama administration, which clearly shares Jackson's philosophy and goals. Just the fact that no Southerners have been appointed into the Obama administration tells us what we can expect for the next few years.